PLAIN TALK WITH PRACTICAL PAINTERS

William Johnson, Manufacturer of White Lead, Zinc, and ColorsThe true theory in painting a country house is to render the building conspicuous, but not obtrusive, to enhance its good features, ifit have any, and diminish or hide its defects - to bring it into harmony with its surroundings, and with the general landscape. The use ofthe primary colors, red, blue and yellow, and the extreme colors, black and white - excepting the latter insmall quantity - is not admissible in exterior house painting.The advocate of white will ask exultingly, what looks better in a country landscape than a white house peeping out from a mass of green foliage - which means simply what looks better than white when it is covered or hidden from View?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.